Die Modernen Vater Der Antike - Die Entwicklung Der Altertumswissenschaften an Akademie Und Universitat Im Berlin Des 19. Jahrhunderts (German, Electronic book text)

The occupation with objects from antiquity and the development of methods for this led both to the creation of a modern discipline of Classical Studies and to decisive impetuses for a re-orientation of other subjects such as theology and historical linguistics. In the present volume, leading scholars of antiquity visit the history of their disciplines from the perspective of present-day research by examining their historical, institutional and theoretical roots in 19th century Berlin a " one of the main centres of this development.